The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-07-21
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WHEELING, w. Va., lnxuriated II
1850 in the shade last Sunday.

WHEELING, w. Va. lnxuriated ID
1850 in the shade last Sunday.
TT is said that Jake Sharp sleeps bet
ter since receiving his sentence. a
heavier sentence awaits him when he
takes his" long, last sleep'.
THE hotel at the Norris geyser basin,
National Park was burned last THUS
day night. Loss about $4,000; in
surance small.
THERE is more gold coin and bullio'
now stored in the Treasury vaults thai
was ever held by the Government bt
fore at one time.
SINCE President Cleveland came in
to office-tbat is from March 4, 1850
to July 1, IsS7-the public debt nas
been reduced S263 ,ss4 .946 So.
ALFRED KRUPP, the great gun mai
ufacturer, died at his villa. near Esseh
Rhenish Prussia Thursday He Was
born in 1919, and his name was Kno"i
to all the civilized world.
JAKE SHARP has been sentenced T.
four years hard labor in the peniten
tiary, and to pay $500 fine. Justic'
evidently is not influenced by DOODLE
in balancing her scales, in Gotham
THE ST. Lawrence sugar refinery at
Montreal, was destroyed by fire las
Friday. Loss, $5OO,OO One fireman
was killed and several others injured
by jumping out of windows.
FROM January let to July 1st, az,
655 immigrants arrived at Castle Gar
den, New Yoik-an increase of 81. .94e
over the number for the same period
in 1885
A MONTREAL dispatch of the lsti'
inst. says cargo of human beings
shipped s'in bond" passed througl
that city, consisting of twenty sever
Chinamen consigned direct to New
York from San FranciscO.
MAYOR FRANCIS, says @ st. Loul
dispatch of the 18th, has appeiate6
the committee to present the tnvfts
ton to President Cleveland to visi
that city during the fall festivities
The delegation will start next Saful
day.
DURING the last fiscal year $12O, 900
600 of gold was expended in the re
demption of per cent. bonds, but still
the stock of gold in the Treasury IN
creased 10000, 900 within the SAM
time. 1t appears that when gold Il
Maid out it naturally flows back 4
Uncle Sans Golfers again.
A. P. HILL, Vice President of Tn
N. Y. Stock Exchange, immediatei!
after announcing the death OF fei
low member, and when about to de
scend from the p1atkeriHaa. was takel
i'll and expired before friends coui'
assist him from the building, Frids.
Last. He was in apparent robust health
and death came wholly without warn
ing.
THE heat of the past ten days ha
exceeded that of the heated term
of the last fifteen years or more. Pros
tration and death is reported from al
sections of the country. At IL m
Monday, 1856 deaths were reported q
Chicago as the total during the heate'
term. from sunstrcke. On the cam
day there were II prostrations in Gin
cinnati, q being fatal, II in Pittsburg
and greater or less number of fatal
ties in nearly every city in the eoun
try. At some points the mercury stoo
106 deg. in the shade.
The benefits of the protective tafil
are enjoyed by a comparatively sma
number of people, and are easily est
mated. Under its operation thousand
are taxed to enrich one. Ii it cost
the thousands dollar each, the favoi
ed. one gets thousand dollars.
would not be difiicult to find one hun
dred men in New England to whor
the tariff means millions in the aggrt
gate every year.
WILLIAM WAYNE, descendant
mad Anthony" Wayne, at receI
meeting, at which he presided, of tn
Society of the Cincinnatus, at Phils
delnhia. announced that the Societ
has in its possession Sl2s,00O for tn
erection of statue of George Wasf
ington, which it is proposed to eret
ON q bold promontory overlookiD
Girsrd Avenue bridge, where it crosI
ses the SchuylkiIl.
A SEVERE storm visited N. Y. Cit
last Sunday. Shutters and signs wei
vrepched from their fastenings, mat
fnQ.it hazardous for street pedestrian
Trees were uprooted in Central Par
and the battery; telegraph and tell
phone poles were Frustrated, and som
damage done to boats in the harbo
There were many narrow escapes
the river and bay. on which were
l8EK8 humOCA VI PACoSAA0 SSSASAo
sail boats and small craft, but no iol
Of life is reported.
NEW ORLEANS 6. A, r. Posts Al
not covering themselves with enviab
notoriety in refusing to admit colore
men to their order, and the soon'
the black man is appreciated to til
extent of ignoring his color as bas
for denying him just honers and pri'
ilege of membership in this or an
other organization, q nearer approac
to solving the high sounding irr
spective of color" enigma will ha,
been reached, not necessarily invel'
ing the social status of either race.
LAST Friday evening collision
terrible in its fatalities. occurred
the crossing of the Michigan Centr
and London & Port Stanley Railway
at St. Thomas, Ont. A special Mich
igan Central freight train was run in
by heavily loaded excursion train
ten coaches, and to add to the horro
4ha onvine of the messenger train tn